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Comment Not so first world (Score 1) 201

It is wild to imagine that a headline of continuous power-supply is seen as positive and celebratory when it rather is the absolute minimum to even begin to be considered as civilized first world, next to running water and proper sewage.
Must feel nice to pay all these crazy taxes in CA and only in 2026 you dont need candles anymore to keep the light on.

Comment Re: Different worlds (Score 1) 504

China and the CCP are at most communist in name - their entire economic and geopolitical rise was and is based on Western principles and teachings, the only difference being the CCP ruthlessly also uses all the dark patterns that are mostly banned in the West.
The CCP has for decades invited Western scholars to teach them how to make China thrive.

Then they sort-of-invited, sort-of-forced greedy and naive German carmakers to manufacture in state-owned factories so they could get all that knowledge they were not yet getting from espionage. Then bought Volvo, plus KuKA.

If you had setup a project with the goal to boost Chinese car manufacturing, that project would have not been as successful as what has happened in the last 10-20 years thru greed, naivite and stupidity on the Western parts - first and foremost ze germanz. (Where those chickens are coming home to roost, look at the failure VWG has become)

Comment Re: Fascism (Score 1) 233

They not only meet, they both started out from the same ideology and philosophy but took different paths - but fascism was always rooted in Marx and communism.
The modern left has managed to twist the unbelievably bloody history of communism in a significantly more favorable light, however, which is very very strange and alarming.

Comment Re: Let me think (Score 3, Interesting) 153

You do realize that nowadays in modern cars practically everything is drive-by-wire, chip and software, right? You are making suggestions on a bus and control units then decide what to actually do based on a lot of other factors and tuning.
It would not be all that practical but you could easily steer these teslas with a gaming controller if you REALLY want to drive yourself but the idea for a market and a direction based on safety stats is clear: the mass of cars in the future will drive themselves, and the average Joe will not interfere with anything. Actually driving yourself could become a kind of luxury spare time or something for future boomers and their passion and enthusiasm for gas guzzlers.

And these vehicles released into the wild in Austin are their R&D project to fine-tune things, for consumers and for actual taxis.

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